MOOCs as a Catalyst for Institution-wide Improvement and Excellence

Conference Archive

DevLearn 2014 Conference & Expo - October 31, 2014

Robert Kearns

Instructional Design Manager Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Nathan Poole

Instructional Designer Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Learning professionals have a number of difficult goals to achieve
relative to the creation and management of online learning. We need to ensure
consistent quality, visual identity, and education outcomes of effective
learning objects that are reusable between programs and delivery methods. As
many challenges as we face, sometimes the solution itself presents its own new
set of issues. In the case of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, massive open
online courses (MOOCs) were both a challenge and a solution.

In this session you will explore how the MOOC creation process
served as a catalyst for the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing to improve course
quality and production standards and promote innovative teaching. You will
discover how the process of creating and deploying MOOCs can help teams focus
attention on keys issues. You will learn how this process led to
institution-wide changes in the way the school conducts all of its eLearning
activities. You will leave this session with an understanding of both the
changes possible when attempting to build and implement MOOCs, as well as
methods for structuring the MOOC-building experience to maximize opportunities
for organizational growth and improvement.

In this session,
you will learn:

How MOOCs can be a catalyst for
improving eLearning across multiple online learning paradigms

How to improve production and use of
eLearning components across platforms based on MOOC best practices

How to promote best practices that can
be embraced by the institution, encouraging compliance

How to develop workflows to ensure
consistent application of branding and copyright review in the production of eLearning